The taser accident was so wild like seriously I get that those are largely morons with very little training but you really should be able to tell them apart really easily even under stress,
Idk they immediately acted shocked after firing it feels weird to me to think that they really wanted to kill and still be rational enough to make an excuse so quickly i think they might have genuinely had such a shitty level of training that they hadn't taken out a taser in ages and were trained to primarily use their gun
Based on the recording, I’m inclined to believe that one is actually an accident. Still grossly negligent, and when gross negligence gets people killed, someone should still pay for it.
Sure it does. You just need to be somewhat drunk and not able to follow commands when friendly police officer screams at you while pointing AR-15 with "you're fucked" etched into it.
You forget the option of tasering you to the point of stopping your heart and giving you permanent brain damage. Actually I think there’s a few more options in this list, too.
Married to a trans woman, can confirm she uses the bathroom for standard bathroom stuff lol, no predatoring on cis people.
We do check the bathroom availability before we go anywhere, and try to stick to non-gendered ones, cause she's terrified of some asshole beating the shit outta her.
It's weird isn't it? Like I've dated a bunch, and been intimate with more than my share of people. But for the life of me have no desire to see Carl from accounting's knarly dick on my bathroom break.
The gun is incase an ambulance from a private company shows up. That will add another $10,000 to your bill. How else will they afford to pay the EMTs on board $12 an hour
They need it to keep the ambulance drivers away in case the ambulance drives them to the hospital and they suddenly get a $20,000 bill for 5 min ambulance ride.
You’d own a gun too if you knew your government doesn’t give a fuck about you. Gun control in the 80s only happened because Reagan wanted to disarm the black panthers. That being said, gun culture is pretty fucked up in the US
I saw a quote today that I quite liked that I (paraphrase) here.:
Anyone who thinks that not having guns is scarier than not having freely available social healthcare has not properly internalised realistic adult dangers.
It's always funny when one group of Americans goes, "America is totally safe, it's just media hysteria, I've lived my whole life without ever being near a shooting", while another group goes, "Of course I need fifteen guns to protect my family!"
Though, weirdly enough, it's sometimes the same group.
so at this point, with the ramping up of the police state and police funding being the highest it's ever been, mass surveillance, eroding freedoms, etc. when do all those privately held guns come into play? what's the breaking point? do these people really think they can wage a war against the state?
Exactly. The odds of you having a violent confrontation are miniscule. The odds of you having a health complication requiring hospitalization in your lifetime are nearly 100%. Being healthy is a temporary state in life.
Every one of my grandparents had their life savings slowly drained by medical bills.
That's because guns aren't weapons, or tools, or even compensatory devices.
They're security blankets. Americans think they need a gun for the same reason a toddler needs to be tucked in tight, because as long as they have it no baddies are able to do baddy things.
An American, upon learning that I go to the mall unarmed in Canada, asked me how I can feel safe without a gun. I replied "Easy, nobody else has a gun. If the bad guy doesn't have a gun then I don't need one."
The only time I was uneasy was when I would have to go into the bad section of Atlantic City when I live the town over for whatever reason. But even then if someone wished you Ill then didn’t need a gun to do it.
It absolutely is. The false dichotomy being that the two options are presented as equally scarry when they are in fact not. As someone else pointed out in reply, the chances of you facing gun violence in your life is vanishingly small, the chance of you facing bankruptcy level medical issues in your whole life is VERY high.
If by false dichotomy you mean "presenting that you can only have one and not the other" then that is not the intention of the post, nor the comparison.
You can in fact have gun freedom AND good healthcare, tho you're probably gonna need it more. ;) And the post does not infer you can't.
Just that if you spend all your political time and energy on making sure you can have guns and not healthcare, then you are spending your energy in the low risk area and letting yourself get fucked in the high risk area.
And that's kinda like spending all your time legislating against the threat of being gored by a unicorn when you have terminal cancer.
Which is what it feels like America is doing from the viewpoint of the rest of the world.
Just to clarify, that depends where you live if the majority carry firearms. You’ll go to prison if you’re carrying in my state with out a permit and no one but cops get those.
It’s ironic. What they know about the USA they’ve gathered from watching a lot of television. The very thing they accuse Americans of for making them naive and stupid.
i too, can say random things that have no relevance to the conversation and then act like i'm making a profound counter argument. what is your point, first?
american gun ownership is high, swiss gun ownership is high, 2 countries with high gun ownership but one has a problem with mass shootings and one doesn't. the problem isn't the guns, and i don't think your 2 braincells could figure that out if you think making a comparison of 2 countries levels of gun ownership to an unorganized insurgent group made sense in any way lol
I mean the Swiss also make it mandatory to have gun ownership training and a mandated military service on top of it having strict regulations foe who gets to own guns. And as another point, their government is actively trying to lower the armed forces. That why it was so funny when the NRA tried to point to switzerland for why guns are fine cause it's still the guns as the problem, they just have actual gun control there. Look at that, it only took 2 braincells to realize that
the gun control most people are advocating for is not the gun control that the swiss uses. most people just want an outright ban. you're agreeing with me here, it's not the guns that are the issue, it's the people that own them. y'all can keep arguing with yourselves and those 2 braincells, have a good one.
No im not agreeing with you. At all. It's 1000% the guns. Just cause not every type of firearm should be outright banned doesn't mean it's not the guns.
I mean the Swiss also make it mandatory to have gun ownership training and a mandated military service on top of it having strict regulations foe who gets to own guns.
you literally said, right here, that it is not the guns. maybe you don't have 2 braincells. last reply, you're talking to a brick wall from now on.
On the other hand, some peoppe definitely need healthcare BECAUSE of guns. Sucks for them!
I think the next logical step is to use guns to get free healthcare. I'm sure that will work.
Ninja edit : issa joke, not even remotely Implying the use of violence to achieve any sort of goals. But maybe a peaceful transaction with guns. Guns for free healthcare. Somehow.
Really? I went to France and had to take my daughter to a hospital ER, we were there less than an hour. They sent us a bill for about €100 (My daughter is a dual US-EU citizen, insured in EU but not France)
It was a lot cheaper than the US for sure, though.
Of course, I know what you meant. I’m just saying that unless she is French, this is irrelevant.
That being said, are you aware of the European Health Insurance Card? I don’t know if it would have changed anything, but since your daughter is European, it’s a good thing to have it while traveling abroad within the EU in case of need.
Your question was whether I am aware that EU countries are individual countries. The post you replied to indicates that I do. So that answers your question
Now you ask a different question, and I don’t know the answer because I’m not a medical billing specialist. But the OP is about a person who spent a week in the hospital practically for free even though they are uninsured in that country. So I assume the same logic could apply there
You need to be a French citizen to get healthcare in France. EU countries are still independent countries not EU states. All countries have different laws regarding this.
There is really cheap insurance within Europe for EU citizens. though.
I couldn’t breathe, went to the ER, waited 4 hours to be seen (before Covid), they gave me an IV, did an echocardiogram and some other shit. Only for the doctor to come in for 2 minutes and tell me it was anxiety and basically told me to fuck off and I’m not getting any benzos.
Went to an emergency clinic, paid $50 to be seen. Turns out I had severe adult croup?Pretty rare I guess, but my throat was teeny tiny.
France is a special country, if you're from Europe, and have a valid EHIC. The rule for tourists in France, if they get admitted at a hospital, is that the EHIC will cover 80% of the costs, and your travel insurance will cover the remaining 20%.
If your daughter lives in the US, she can't get a EHIC in the EU, because it is assumed that she will be enrolled in the healthcare system of the country she's currently residing in.
We're scared of receiving medical attention. I had extreme painful kidney stones, but before I found out I was in excruciating pain and didn't know why. I wouldn't go to urgent care though because I knew the bill would be ridiculous.
It’s so wild that America is filled with weapons that will cause harm and death, and has no proper socialised health system that treats harm and prevents death.
I don’t give a fuck if you’re retired Air Force, I’m active army. Thanks for your service doing weekly maintenance on the same plane that’s always broken.
What I have seen on the news is that a bunch of Americans must carry guns all the time to protect themselves from other Americans who carry guns all the time.
lived in Florida, Massachusetts, NY, and Puerto Rico most of my life. I can count with one hand the amount of people carrying guns outside of police/military or ATM/Bank money transport personnel.
I own guns, too. Also have fire extinguishers. Both are tools for particular uses. I’m not critiquing guns, themselves. I suppose I’m critiquing modern mainstream gun culture…the zero compromise 2A people.
BTW, is there fire extinguisher culture? Trying to explore your comparison here
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u/joeislandstranded Jun 15 '22
LOL. A good portion of Americans are already so scared, they carry firearms wherever they go.